Experience
A trial lawyer shaped by every side of a hard case.
Eben Cowles Self has practiced law in Florida since 1993. His work spans criminal defense, civil litigation, personal injury, trials, and appeals in state and federal courts.
Perspective earned in court
Experience measured in judgment, not slogans.
The most difficult legal matters rarely fit a simple story. They demand a lawyer who can separate allegation from proof, urgency from strategy, and the result a client wants from the options the law actually permits.
Mr. Self’s career has crossed criminal and civil practice, trials and appeals, and representation of both individuals and businesses. That range informs a direct, deliberately prepared approach to every matter he accepts.
- Admitted to The Florida Bar in 1993
- Member in good standing
- Admitted in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida and the Eleventh Circuit
- Listed on the Ninth Judicial Circuit court-appointed attorney registry for Orange and Osceola counties
Civil-trial foundation
Personal-injury work at the firm that became Morgan & Morgan.
Mr. Self’s career includes plaintiffs’ personal-injury work at Morgan, Colling & Gilbert, the predecessor firm to Morgan & Morgan. A published Fifth District Court of Appeal decision identifies him as counsel for an injured plaintiff and records a reversal of summary judgment.
That experience is part of a broader trial perspective: understand the proof, preserve the record, and prepare the case as though the courtroom will be the place where it must be resolved.
Read Sinfort v. Food LionDefense philosophy
The hardest facts are where counsel matters most.
Representation is not approval. A serious defense confronts difficult evidence directly, tests what the State can prove, and insists that accusation never substitute for due process.
When public judgment arrives before the evidence has been heard, the work requires unusual steadiness: seeing the whole case, understanding the whole person, and protecting the integrity of the process without flinching.
A direct conversation
Start with the problem as it is.
Tell us what happened, what deadline or court date is approaching, and what concerns you most. The first conversation is about whether the firm is the right fit.